Law and Crime
Best Ideas
- Only fines for criminals
- Photos wanted on cheques and credit cards
- Over-25 car window stickers to deter car thieves
- Electronic tagging in practice
- More lawyers, less work, more mediation
- Justice by random arbitration
- Creative sentencing in California
- Tonglen meditation in prison
- Concealing crime victims' addresses
- Differential needed between robbery and murder
- Nuremberg trial for cigarette manufacturers
Social Inventions
- Judge lets victims take from burglars' homes
- Holistic Lawyers
- Rent-a-dog for joggers
- Free transmitter alarms for battered women
- Recidivism rate cut from 70% to 10%
- Prisons earn more if recidivism cut
- A prison magazine with 200,000 circulation
- Exploiting similarities between crime and drama
Book of Visions
- Terrorists with neutron bombs?
- Prison incentives in the 18th century
- Prisons as ashrams
- The Human Kindness Foundation
- Prisoners as firemen
- Prisoners training dogs for the disabled
- Helping prisoners escape
- Prisoners translating books
- Delinquents into donors
- The Guardian Angels
- Tube Guardians given half-price season tickets
- No riots in small prisons
- Small- scale borstal
- Ha-Has round jails
- Getting help from police stations
- Police in wheelchairs
- Cardboard police
- Language is as individual as fingerprints
- Libel in county courts
- Glowing disc to cut car theft
- The anti-bike thief box
- Legalising trade in marijuana seeds only
- Community or Penitence Stamps
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